What I found is that DosBox/Apps will recognize CDs (and diskettes?) if you create images of the media. In addition, on the Macs - if the app is looking for a particular CD, it would fail. I think if the app is just looking for a CD with the right files on it, it should work. What does not work may …

There is more then one file on the cdrom. I did a dir *.cfg to get the one file, and try to show that the volume label is not presented. There are 62 files on the CD - 464 megabytes of data. Yes, it is the right disk, the exe did run, and it reads all the supporting files it needs to run. It is …

Well, it was a bit of a problem in getting a good ISO. Apple disk utility created an image that could not be mounted - Burn 1.71u crashed when it worked on the .exe. But I did get a good ISO from my XP machine (using CDBurnerXP Pro 3.0). Thats the good news. Bad news - same problem. This is using: …

No - it did not work.

Tried -usecd 0 (mount -cd gave me the fake cdrom at 0) and -label TestCD Going to learn the syntax for imgmount and try that next. (see attached - my cdrom mount batch file)

Yes - you are correct. -ioctl is for Windows. Just found this thread - (known problem?) It sounds like exactly the same problem: CD-ROM issues in OSX I will give it a try anyway (cd was left at the office)- Oh well, I was getting so close to getting this to work!

I have an application that runs in DOSBox on a Mac (OS 10.3.9). The program have to run from the CD. During the initialization, it does recognize that it is running from a CD Rom. I have a C:\ drive set up for its temp subdirectory - and *.tmp files are written to the temp folder. The software works …

Well..... I was taking stupid pills, again! I should cut back on them and not take so many. My problem with the temp/tmp directories was again the / vs \ characters. The software runs, but my new (and maybe final) problem is the software not recognizing the CD as a volume being mounted after it …

Yep - I've tried set the temp environment variable to c:\windows\temp and the set command seems to work. Typing SET repeats the enviroment settings. I have the correct folders set up - went to the directories and verified that it is indeed there. Program does not seem to see the definition. Will …

Feel kinda of dumb - you are right. :oops: What I was doing was using the \volumes\xxx vs. /volumes/xxx. Actually got the software to run! :happyhappy: But now trying to figure how to set the environment parameter for the temp path. Normally it is set in autoexec.bat. If I get that figured out, the …

Thanks - I found what I was doing wrong. I just tried mount d "/volumes/xxx" -t cdrom -ioctl and it works. Earlier I was not using quotes - so I couldn't mount it as a cdrom. But I was able to mount it as a drive without the quotes. Thanks again for your patience....

the mount with the -t switch is for Windows - Sorry about the confusion - I did get the CD to mount - now is just figuring out why the application on the cd would not run. And I posted this in the wrong forum - I am trying to use DosBox on a Mac, not trying to emulate a Mac. Thanks all, Arturo

Shame - DosBox is neat, just hoping that the exe would run in this environment.

Found the aswer - >mount e /volumes/cdname But I found that I had to use the full name, all 11 characters. (bad news, software did not run)

I have OS X 10.3.9, and want to access the CDROM. Where is the documentaion ? or is it impossible. Macs do not assign drive letters to drives - Thanks in advance for the help,